Spike Lee’s List Of Essential Films Contains Exactly Zero Women

Spike Lee published the list of “Essential Films For Filmmakers” which he hands out on the first day every year in his NYU graduate film class. It’s a good list (Coppola! Fellini!) … but it’s got ZERO women on it. Seriously, Spike? There’s not a single film ever made by a woman which you think is essential for young filmmakers to see? No Mira Nair? No Phyllida Lloyd? No Kathryn Bigelow? [Kickstarter via Racialicious]

The PBS news program “Newshour” will soon be anchored by two women: Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff. [New York Times]

The majority of women feel relief after terminating an unwanted pregnancy, according to a study of 800 women by the University of California San Francisco. While women also reported experiencing more negative emotions, relief was the most common one. [Think Progress]

Here’s a profile on Jill Abramson, the first-ever female executive editor of The New York Times. [The Daily Beast]

Wisconsin will become the first state to post statistics about reported prison rapes online. [Think Progress]

Why do people raising our children earn poverty wages? The Nation investigates childcare-givers in New Jersey who work full-time caring for children, yet still live in poverty. [The Nation]

Check out The Big Feminist But, a new comics anthology about men, women and feminism. [Mother Jones]

Actress Mayim Bialik from “The Big Bang Theory” on her son playing with baby dolls. [Kveller]

If you’re a bigot who calls Pink a “lesbian,” she’s going to take it as a compliment. [Queerty]

INTERNATIONAL

Meet Tian Yu, a Chinese woman who worked 12 hours a day, six days a week, making iPads. In March 2010 at age 17, Yu tried to commit suicide by jumping out of the fourth floor of her factory dorm. She spent 12 days in a coma and is now paralyzed. Her suicide attempt, as well as other successful suicides, have sparked a nationwide conversation about human rights abuses in the tech industry. [Guardian UK]

The Frieze Masters in London will have a solo exhibition of feminist artist Judy Chicago’s work beginning in October. [Artlyst]